518, 3.82- Is my school list okay? Should I add any schools or is it not worth it at this point?

[Strawberryfilling]

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I am a CA resident and applied to 35 schools (one has not sent me the secondary yet so that will make it 36). I did apply to quite a few reaches, but thought it would be okay because I applied to a lot of schools, but now I'm worried I didn't have enough target-type schools. Please help!
MCAT: 518
cGPA: 3.82
sGPA: 3.77
Clinical volunteering: hospital-200, scribe- 150, clinic volunteer (lots of pt interaction)- 110
Non-clinical: health education program- 250, animal shelter- 70
Research- 160 hrs from one experience and 90 hours from another (neither were basic science) 1 abstract as second author from an internship
Shadowing: ~55 hours (peds, orthopedic surgeon, neurology, GI, cardiologist)
School list:
UCSF
UCLA
UCSD
UCD
UCI
UCR
USC
CUSM (has not sent me secondary yet, was a last minute addition)
Washington St Louis
Stanford
Columbia
NYU
Baylor
UChicago
Case Western
Northwestern
UMich
Johns Hopkins
Emory
Mt Sinai
Hofstra
U Rochester
BU
Cincinnati
Georgetown
Stonybrook
USF Morsani
Tulane
Pittsburg
Dartmouth
Albert Einstein
Wayne State
OUWB
SUNY downstate
SLU
VCU

Edit: I also currently have secondaries from GW, UMass, and U Maryland that I hadn't filled out, are any of these worth filling out now (I added UMaryland during labor day weekend, the other two are pretty old now)?
All my other secondaries were submitted July through Labor Day

 

[Faha]

You should receive several interviews from your list. GW is worth adding.

 

[Goro]

EDIT:
I'm worried that your research hours are on the low side for the Powerhouses.

ECs are rather cookie cutter, especially for one aiming so high. A 518 MCAT is nothing to sneeze at, but the people who seem to make it into the really Top Schools have 100s, if not 1000s of hours of clinical and/or non-clinical experiences.


You'll probably be resource protected out at:

Georgetown
Wayne State
OUWB
SLU
VCU

Don't bother with the latest secondaries.

 

[Strawberryfilling]

EDIT:
I'm worried that your research hours are on the low side for the Powerhouses.

ECs are rather cookie cutter, especially for one aiming so high. A 518 MCAT is nothing to sneeze at, but the people who seem to make it into the really Top Schools have 100s, if not 1000s of hours of clinical and/or non-clinical experiences.


You'll probably be resource protected out at:

Georgetown
Wayne State
OUWB
SLU
VCU

Don't bother with the latest secondaries.

Thank you for the response! I'm not sure if this will help, but my gap year job is a research position at a T10 medical school, which I did write about in my secondaries. Are there any other schools that might be worth applying to if my list is too top-heavy? Or is it too late for that and just time to wait it out and hope I wont have to reapply?

 

[Goro]

Thank you for the response! I'm not sure if this will help, but my gap year job is a research position at a T10 medical school, which I did write about in my secondaries. Are there any other schools that might be worth applying to if my list is too top-heavy? Or is it too late for that and just time to wait it out and hope I wont have to reapply?

The gap year experience should help. In the mean time, just engage in more service.

 

[Strawberryfilling]

The gap year experience should help. In the mean time, just engage in more service.

Thanks for the advice! Do you think I should focus on finding more clinical or non-clinical service opportunities? Would I then send updates to schools that accept updates that I am starting new position(s) (and include maybe the language class I am taking currently)?

 

[gyngyn]

You list is fine as is. You don't need CUSM...

 

[inasaur]

EDIT:
I'm worried that your research hours are on the low side for the Powerhouses.

ECs are rather cookie cutter, especially for one aiming so high. A 518 MCAT is nothing to sneeze at, but the people who seem to make it into the really Top Schools have 100s, if not 1000s of hours of clinical and/or non-clinical experiences.


You'll probably be resource protected out at:

Georgetown
Wayne State
OUWB
SLU
VCU

Don't bother with the latest secondaries.

Does VCU really yield protect? Their adcoms have denied it several times, and I got an II with LM 81.

 

[Goro]

Does VCU really yield protect? Their adcoms have denied it several times, and I got an II with LM 81.

Are you a VA native?

Frankly, with an LM of 81, you can do better than VCU.